Monthly Archives: September 2012

Even though the unconstitutional use of GPS tracking led police to follow a suspected sex offender, allowing police to testify about the man’s activities was harmless error since the victim’s own testimony was sufficient to convict the suspect of violent ...

A woman near Bluefield found out the hard way about the perils of social media. When she clicked the “like” button on the Facebook page of the county sheriff, her fugitive boyfriend ended up in jail and the girlfriend now ...

A post-doctoral fellow conducting research at U.Va.’s Department of Psychiatry & Neurobehavioral Sciences who alleges his appointment was not renewed because he complained about his supervisor’s fraudulent allocation of levels of effort on a particular government grant withstands summary judgment ...

Lawyers setting up trusts for clients are forging a new role for an advisor charged with seeing that the client’s original intent is carried out: trust protector. Broadly speaking, the trust protector does not have a day-to-day role in managing ...

What’s better than a free lunch? Free CLE. If a law firm wants to get in front of a potential big-ticket corporate client, there’s no better way than offering a program that lets their in-house lawyers score easy CLE credits ...

Appellate arguments sometimes reduce to a couple of questions: How does this set of facts fit with prior precedent and how will the court’s decision affect future conduct? There have only been five published cases in which the Supreme Court ...

ROANOKE – Blame demands for a more practical law school experience for at least part of the rise in the cost of legal education. So says Nora V. Demleitner, the new dean of Washington & Lee University’s law school. More ...

A Norfolk U.S. District Court says it has no subject matter jurisdiction over this “quick-take” condemnation proceeding by the city of Chesapeake of real estate owned by defendant Clear Sky Car Wash as part of a federally funded highway initiative, ...

A Richmond federal court has rejected a “simply shocking” request for nearly $1 million in attorney’s fees sought by two shareholders who sued to halt the sale of Massey Energy Company to Alpha Natural Resources Inc. U.S. District Judge John ...

The record does not support a district court’s rejection of civil commitment for a sex offender and the 4th Circuit orders reconsideration; the offender has a long history of acting on his pedophilic urges, has been convicted or adjudicated delinquent ...